UAE and OPEC
The decision by the United Arab Emirates to step away from OPEC marks more than a routine policy shift; it reflects a deeper fracture in the logic that has governed global oil politics for decades.
The decision by the United Arab Emirates to step away from OPEC marks more than a routine policy shift; it reflects a deeper fracture in the logic that has governed global oil politics for decades.
The UAE, one of the world's top oil producers, will pull out from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and OPEC+ from May 1.
Corbin Bosch and Anrich Nortje shared five wickets between themselves as South Africa restricted the United Arab Emirates to 122/6 in their final Group D game of the 2026 Men’s T20 World Cup at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia launched military strikes on the Yemeni port city of Mukalla, alleging a shipment of weapons meant for a separatist force there had arrived from the United Arab Emirates.
India’s rise on the global economic stage is often celebrated as an emblem of national resurgence.
It would be naïve for the region and the wider world, however, to ascribe any other motive than the purely utilitarian to this change in tack by President Erdogan.
On Wednesday, Jaishankar visited the site of the under-construction site of BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in the UAE.
On Thursday, in the immediate aftermath of the agreement, Biden and Lapid mentioned their support for the US-Israeli relationship, not to forget the perceived threat from Iran.
The I2U2 Grouping was conceptualized during the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the four countries held on October 18 last year.
Sheikh Khalifa became the ruler of the UAE, a federation of seven semiautonomous city-states along the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, after the death of his father in 2004.
